"Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea."
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"Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected."
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"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity."
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"Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide."
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"I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died."
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"I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here."
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"Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?"
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"When he is sick, every man wants his mother."
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"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."
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"I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it."
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"Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent."
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"I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable."
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"There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life."
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"a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is."
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"I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one."
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"Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind."
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"A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine."
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"For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them."
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"The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively."
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"Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick."
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